We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life. – William Godwin
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. – William Godwin
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image. – William Godwin
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. – William Godwin